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Brahms & Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 4
Wiener Philharmoniker, London Symphony Orchestra, Josef Krips
the glory of this disc is Brahms 1 - an Andante of unalloyed bliss. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2011, Re-issue of the Month
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Sullivan, A: HMS Pinafore John Reed (Sir Joseph Porter), Pauline Wales (Hebe), Thomas Lawlor (Captain Corcoran), Christine Palmer (Little Buttercup), Ralph Mason (Ralph Rackstraw), Valerie Masterson (Josephine), John Ayldon (Dick Deadeye), Arthur Jackson (Bob Becket), Jon Ellison (Bob Bobstay)
D’Oyly Carte Opera Chorus,...
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Songs for Courtiers and Cavaliers Helen Watts (contralto), Thurston Dart (harpsichord)
Philomusica of London
An intriguing record of the roots of historically-informed performance, Helen Watts and Desmond Dupré give passionate but (by today’s standards) heavy-handed accounts. — More…
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Diapason d’Or, November 2019, Collectionneur
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J.S. Bach: Six Cantatas Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Robert Tear (tenor), John Shirley-Quirk (bass), Julia Varady (soprano), Aldo Baldin (tenor), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone)
Academy of St. Martin of the Fields, Neville Marriner
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Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker Suite RecommendedL'Orchestre da la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet
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Kodály: Orchestral Works RecommendedBrighton Festival Chorus & London Symphony Orchestra, István Kertész
A winner from the start. The combination of conductor and orchestra could hardly fail in this brilliant, extrovert music, and with Decca's most spectacular recording quality I imagine this will... — More…
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Building a Library, April 2017, Also Recommended
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Strauss, J, II: Der Zigeunerbaron Alfred Poell (Graf Peter Homonay), Karl Dönch (Conte Carnero), Julius Patzak (Sándor Barinkay), Kurt Preger (Kálman Zsupán), Emmy Loose (Arsena), Steffi Leverenz (Mirabella), August Jaresch (Ottokar), Rosette Anday (Czipra), Hilde Zadek (Saffi), Franz Bierback (Pali)
Wiener Staatsopernchor...
A properly Viennese ensemble with conductor Clemens Krauss, but with cuts and shorn of dialogue. Julius Patzak is a serviceable Sándor, home from exile, but Hilde Zadek’s gypsy Saffi steals... — More…
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Diapason d’Or, May 2018, Collectionneur
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Wagner: Die Walküre: Act 1, etc.
RecommendedBirgit Nilsson (Brünnhilde), George London (Wotan), Jon Vickers (Siegmund), Gré Brouwenstijn (Sieglinde), David Ward (Hunding), Rita Gorr (Fricka)
London Symphony Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf
…an exciting, eloquent, lyrical, an always vital account of the opera and draws splendid playing, of which the conductor must have been proud, and we should be, from the London Symphony Orchestra,... — More…
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Borodin: Prince Igor
Dušan Popović (Igor Svyatoslavich), Valerija Heybal (Yaroslavna), Noni Žunec (Vladimir Igorevich), Žarko Cvejić (Vladimir Galitsky/Konchak), Melanija Bugarinović (Konchakovna), Dragutin Petrović (Ovlur), Dragomir Ninković (Skula), Nikola Jančić (Yeroshka), Biserka Cvejić (Yaroslavna’s Nurse/Polovtsian...
Popović strikes me as an excellent baritone, a muscular sound with ringing top notes. His is one of the best Prince Igors on disc – heroic and noble...Bugarinović has a dark, almost contralto-ish... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2019, Reissue of the Month
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